Dawn Penn

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

No, no, no   DE 53 08/08/1994 (9 weeks)   AT 25th 08/07/1994 (7 weeks)   UK 51 07/09/1994 (3 weeks)

Singles

You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)   DE 41 07/18/1994 (14 weeks)   AT 13 07/31/1994 (8 weeks)   CH 17th 07/31/1994 (14 weeks)   UK 3  silver 06/11/1994 (12 weeks)   US 58 02/26/1994 (12 weeks) Night & Day (Baby I Love You So)   UK 81 09/10/1994 (2 weeks)

Dawn Penn (* 1952 in Kingston , Jamaica as Dawn Pickering ) is a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer.

life and career

As a child she learned the violin and piano and won a talent competition at the age of 17. Her own version of Willie Cobbs' blues song You Don't Love Me was released on Studio One in the late sixties and became a hit in Jamaica. She recorded other songs, including the Blue Yes Blue produced by Prince Buster . In the early 1970s she moved to the Virgin Islands where she worked as an accountant . An attempted comeback in 1987 failed.

In 1994 the duo Steely & Clevie produced a dancehall version of their 1967 song called You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) . The song hit music charts worldwide and an album called No, No, No was recorded. The follow-up single couldn't achieve the same success. In July 1996 another album called Come Again was released .

Jackie Mittoo, Jamaican keyboardist and founding member of the Skatalites , for his part covered this rocksteady song and made an instrumental version of it. Ghetto Organ , appeared on the 1972 album Macka Fat .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} br-online.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dawn Penn: "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" , Ulli Wenger, Bayern 3  
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} allmusic.com Dawn Penn: Biography , Alex Henderson, Allmusic
5. ^ Allmusic.com Come Again, Dawn Penn, Allmusic